2018-05-19, 00:24
@DaveBlake, just to be sure I understand, before I go ahead and re-test the latest Kodi nightly with my 260,000+ tracks music collection:
Right now, I have an "Artist/Album" folder structure, and each artist in that structure is an album artist and all of the music for that artist is underneath the artist folder, in each of the album folders for that artist. In each artist folder is an NFO for the artist, and art (thumb, logo, etc.). In each album folder there is an NFO for the album and art (folder.jpg, disc, etc.). A lot of my collection has NFOs for artists and albums, but not all of them do. I embed album art in the files themselves (mp3, flac) and for many albums, also have a folder.jpg. While I use Artwork Beef for video art, I am not using it yet for music.
Given the above, is the following true?
1. I can import my collection, regardless of having an Artist Info Folder set, and Kodi Leia will find the information in the NFOs in the artist and album folders, as well as the basic art in those folders, and load that into the database.
2. I can change the information provider for one or several (or all) of the artists that I do not have info on, to UAS or other scraper, and Kodi will, if online info is found, load that into the database, but not create/modify any NFOs for artists/albums.
3. I can export my music library, and if I have the Artist Info Folder set, Kodi will create an artist folder structure under that folder, with NFO and art for each artist, which includes information from my original NFOs (which was loaded when I imported my music collection) and online information (which was loaded when I scraped information for artists for which I had none).
Please let me know if I missed anything or misrepresented anything in there, so I now how to proceed. Thank you so much for all the work you are doing.
Regards,
Bart
Right now, I have an "Artist/Album" folder structure, and each artist in that structure is an album artist and all of the music for that artist is underneath the artist folder, in each of the album folders for that artist. In each artist folder is an NFO for the artist, and art (thumb, logo, etc.). In each album folder there is an NFO for the album and art (folder.jpg, disc, etc.). A lot of my collection has NFOs for artists and albums, but not all of them do. I embed album art in the files themselves (mp3, flac) and for many albums, also have a folder.jpg. While I use Artwork Beef for video art, I am not using it yet for music.
Given the above, is the following true?
1. I can import my collection, regardless of having an Artist Info Folder set, and Kodi Leia will find the information in the NFOs in the artist and album folders, as well as the basic art in those folders, and load that into the database.
2. I can change the information provider for one or several (or all) of the artists that I do not have info on, to UAS or other scraper, and Kodi will, if online info is found, load that into the database, but not create/modify any NFOs for artists/albums.
3. I can export my music library, and if I have the Artist Info Folder set, Kodi will create an artist folder structure under that folder, with NFO and art for each artist, which includes information from my original NFOs (which was loaded when I imported my music collection) and online information (which was loaded when I scraped information for artists for which I had none).
Please let me know if I missed anything or misrepresented anything in there, so I now how to proceed. Thank you so much for all the work you are doing.
Regards,
Bart
